by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group
Babus defy
Modi sermons,
Deadline
for property returns extended once again
Maharashtra
IAS officers score
Harish
Gupta
New Delhi, Oct 11
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi may be exhorting the people to join in making his
various schemes successful. But Modi government’s Public Servants are ignoring
the directions regularly to file statements of their Assets & liabilities.
All serving
bureaucrats belonging to IAS, IPS and other Central Services are expected to
file statements of how much property, cash, jewelry owned by them and their
family members and their liabilities as well. But these bureaucrats have been
dithering and virtually defying the directions.
An
indication of this came today when the Ministry issued a fresh order on a
Sunday today extending the deadline to file their statements of Assets &
liabilities straight for a period of six months. This is the third extension as
the first expired in April 15 and the second deadline is expiring on October
2015. Now the Public Servants have been directed to file their statements of
Assets and liabilities by 15th April 2016.
The public
servants are to file their assets & liabilities return for the year 2014
including that of their family members and the first deadline was April 2015.
This has caused a problem as the Modi government is determined to ensure transparency
in its functioning. Though nearly 3000 returns have been filed. But more than one
thousand have declared that they have no property. The only consolation is that
of the 270 IAS officers belonging to Maharashtra,
268 have filed it while one has retired.
All
ministries and departments have been directed by the Department of Personnel
under the Prime Minister Modi to ensure compliance with the revised rules
within the stipulated time frame.
